Musings on Grief, Loss and Corporate Restructures – Part IV, Bargaining…
“So you put a decade of blood sweat and tears, not to mention the countless lunch breaks you didn’t take, the pain and agony of building your businesses, contacts and networks.
You deliver budget time after time, over countless years adding to the coffers of those above…
…and then one day you’re given the envelope, a pat on the back….
“Well done old boy, you’ve poured your heart and soul into this place but the folks above don’t like you, so sorry but we have to let you go, nothing personal…”
It’s not that you were incompetent, they just didn’t like you…and there’s nothing you can do…absolutely nothing.”*
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Treatise on Leadership
Are you going to be a pleb or a senator? A soldier or a general?
If you are the latter, are you going to be a tyrant or bring a sense of anarchic compassion?
If I were a leader and I got pushed off my dias, I’d want people to cry over me (unlike Eva Peron)…because at least it meant I touched them and instilled a sense of loyalty.”*
*written 29th Oct 09
